Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE.| E. ROSEWATER Lpiton. . = UBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERME OF KUBSCRIPTION. Dally and Bunday, One Year . Eix monthe RV I Bunday I Weekly Bee, ommeree, vibune Bullding nth Btreet. k. Roor #ton, b CORRESPONDENCE All communfentions relating to news and editorin mutter should bo addressed to the Editorial T BUSINESS LETT Al business letters and ‘remitfances should te addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the com pany. 'ghe ‘Bec Publishing Company, Proprictors, he o Wd'g, Farnam and Seventeenth Sta FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Etateof Nobrasks ! County of Douias. George B, Trschuck. secretary of The Bee Publishing compiav. aoos solemnly swear that the actual eiroulation of THE DAILY | for the weex ending Dee, 6, 180, was as fol- 26,050 Wednesday. D T Eaturday, De AVOrage.ieeseis aiiis Grorar B, T7Z80n UCK. Fyorn to Yefore me and subscribed in my presence tnis (uh day of December, A, D.. 1890 IKEAL, N. P. FriL, Notary Publie. Etute of Nebraska, Connty of Dotglas, {5 Georpe B, Trschuck, belng duly sworn, de- oses wnd sn cretary of The Bee the actunl avernge was 20,48 coples; for bruary, 1600, 0.815 1800, 0,130 copiesi for' July, copies 'or October, 1680, 22,13 19,701 cov'es: foi for Aprij, 1600, 20,604, v cmber. 1860, 2).670 coples 1800, 20702 coples; for November, coples. GrONGE B. TZSCRUCK. Eworn 10 befora me. und subseribed in my presence, this 0t day of December. A, D., 1800. T Notary Publ! o fmpending sesston of the legislature will be of vital concern to the people of this state. It Is of the utmost importance that members of the legisluture shall understand h el constituents and be pr pared to grapple intelligently and advisedly with the Issues that must come before them. Tue ke therefore invites suggestions from ro famillar with any partlcular subjeet that Is likely to engage the attention of the leglslature, Parties favoring us, how- ever, are requested to muke thefr communi- catlons ns briof as possible and to the point. 1t 18 to bo understood that Tuk Bee will not be responsible for the published views of con- tributors, and It reserves the privilege of dis- cussing them In §ts own way and from the stand point which it deems best for the Inter- ©sts of the people. IRELAND, di ided against itself, will roon full a prey to the tory wolves. To SAVE his own, Parnell dislocates the spine of the Irish parliamentary party. To 1ms laurels as a successful leader, Parnell now adds the blighted wreath of n distinguished wrecker. ——— THERE is hope for a government that indicts railroad presidents for holding up the public in broad daylight. of the state cannot be hoodwinked by the mild-eyed yarns of fanatics whom they repudiated atthe polls. —_— BY FILLING the hostile chiefs with substantial fodder, General Brooke made h masterly movement in the direction of peace. THE recent action of a Chicago federal jury tends to concentrate managerial interest in the advantages of Joliet as a THE IRISH CRISIS. The disruption of the Irish parliamen- tary party is complete, The opponents of Parnellism, unable to force the ques- tion of deposition to a direct vote of the party, retired from the meeting to the number of forty-four, loaving Parnell master of the situation with a following of twenty-seven. With the return of the An an delegates the relative strength of the factions will be forty- nine against to twenty-nine for Parnell, leaving fivagwith unknown preferences. The direction events have finally taken will unquestionably redound to the power of Parnell. From the outsot of the internal contest Parnell had the advantage, and with consummate skill coupled with a reckless indifference to parlismentary usages, he wove the web which places his opponents in the un- favorablelight of seceders. The origi- nal question procipitated by the divorce court was buried out of sight, and the issue adroitly turned to the higher one, involving the vital issue of homa rule, Gladstone urged the retirement of Parnell, not from political motives, but because as an honorable man and a champion of the purity of homelife, he could not maintain political re- lations with the Trish leader without imperilling the life of the lib- eralparty. With extraordmary audac ity Parnell parried the request of Glad- stone, betrayed a confidential interview and boldly asserted that the demand for his retirement had for its object the di- vision the Irish party and the passage of an emasculated home rule law, in event of the liberal party coming into power. The trick succeeded. As chairman of the party, Parnell had the power to handle its deliberations to his advant- age. He fought foe political life with passion and desporation and serupled not at the means to gain his ends. The successive delays were cloverly desigred and the manner in which he entrapped his opponents into a futile conference with Gladstone forces admiration for his generalship, even though it ends in disaster to the home rule cause. The division of the party transfers the conflict to Ireland, Both sides will be compelled to appeal to the people, and in that forum, if the oxist- ing sentiment is reliable, Parnell’s confidence in the outcome will not be misplaced. In shrewdly relegating the coarse intrigue which dims the bril- liancy of his career and cutting loose from all ‘“‘entangling allianc he cures the support of the which prefer an indofinite continuance of oppre laws to any mensure of local self-government that does not go to the verge of Ivish independence. Ap- pealing to the emotional electors of Ire- land on the issues he has soadroitly sprung and against what he terms the “betrayal of home rule,” it is safe to predict that temporarily he will over- whelm the decent members of the party and successfully overcome clerical oppo- sition, But the gain to Parnell individually will be at tremendous cost to the hopes and aspirations of the Irish people. sustain him in the face of univers: lic opinion is to alienate the f Ireland throughout the world, todis gust the Inglish democ ey and con- geal the well springs of generosity which have heretofore sustained the struggle and furnished the sinews of war in abundance, Viewed in any light the disvuption of the party through the overshadowing ambition of Parneli must prove a disastrous chock to liberty, and plunge unhappy Ireland into a demoral- izing strife, the like of which has not been experienced for a generation. winter resort. v IN 1HE struggle between home rule and home dishonored, enlightened pub- lic opinion is unanimously for Glad- stone, Morley and McCarthy, THE ghost dance, as depicted by the artists in the illustrated papers, is not nearly as frightful as the harmony in the average democratic ward caucus. RECENT events at Pine Ridge agency strengthen the opinion that the most ef- fective way to reach the good will of the Indian is through the alimentary canal. THOSE who have railroads to build in the west will save themselves consider- able financial annoyance, if not bank- ruptey, by consulting Jay Gould in ad- vance, THE man who suffers real pain on ac- count of the collossal fortunes of this age is the man who doesn’t possess one of them, He is very numerous and conse- quently noisy. —— GENERAL PALMER is now a candidate for vice president. When heis nota candidate for something he can’t sleep . nights. And he hasslept soundly for a great many years, Poor old New Hampshire Is threat- ened with two legislatures. The many states that are now groaning at the pros- pect of asingle afiction should think of New Hampshire and take heart. SPEAKER CHURCH HOWE would be a product of anti-monopoly reform worthy 10 go on record by the side of Jay Gould’s chum, Gordon, senator-elect from Geor- gia. Look out for funny things at Lin- coln next month, — IF THE contest engineered by Dictator Burrows was honestly designea to bring out the truth, why are responsible citi- zens of Omaha ignored and the witnesses confined to those who villified the people and assailed the credit of the city and state? —_— Tuis is a hard winter fox George W, Delamater of Pennsylvania. He was defentad for governor as the candidate of @ party that has a normal wajority of 80,000, and now he has failed in business. He had a very large stake in the election and lost itall. Hels still & young mun and may be on top again in a few years, ———— . CLERK MCPHERSON of the house of reprosentatives has prepared a semi- official list of the members of the next congress, showing 234 democrats, 88 ro- publicans, 8 Farmers’ Alliance and 2 vacancies, This insures a clear demo- cratic majority of 188, and throws a LIMITED POOLING. There is a delegation of railrond men in Washington urging a modification of the interstate commerce act soas to por- mit limited pooling, and it is stated that the proposition is approved by the mem- bers of the interstate commerce commis- sion. A bill for this purpose, drawn by Senu- tor Dawes of Massachusetts, was intro- duced in the senate last winter and is in the hands of the interstato commerce committee, by which its early considera- tion is promised. This measure pro- vides for allowing railroads to divert freight from one road to another ac- cording to some agreed proportions, the details of the agreement having pre- viously been filel with and ap- proved by the interstate . com- merce commission. This is es- sentially different from the old system of pooling, which divided carnings, and is believed to have all of the virtues and some of the vices of the old method. Senator Cullom, author of the interstate act and chairman of the senate inter- state commerce committee, is in favor of the proposed modification of the law, and it is not doubted the committes will report favorably the bill it has in charge, in which case there is every probability that it will pass. There has been a great change in in- telligent public opinion within the past year or two regarding the principle of pooling, and a great many persons who had been strongest in their hostility to pooling, believing it impossible that anything but injury to the intorests of the public could result from it, have ba- come convinced thata judiciously regu- Iated system, subject to acceptance and approval by tho interstate commerce commission and liable to be set aside at ary time by the commission whenever it should be found not to operate satis- factorily or to he against the public in- terest, would ba o good thing, service- able alike to the railroads and the pub- lie. The principal objection to pooling is that it gives an opportunity to carriers to exact extortionats rates, but this ob- jection would not hold in the case of a regulated system practically in the con- trol of the interstate commerce commis- sion, Doubtless in the readjustment of rates advances would be made, but these would have to be reasonable and just in order to obtain the ap- proval of the interstate commerce com- mission. The great gain to be expected from the system would be in having rates, whatever they should be, estab- lished with a measure of permanence and charged to all alike. Under the proposed plan of limited pooling there would probably be an end to the manip- ulating of rates, for which soveral rail- melancholy light on the breadth and dopth of the late lamented landslide. . road officials are now under indictment lnl, Chicago and more are in danger of THE OMAHA DAILY B being, or at all events this sort of thing would be réduced to a minimum. Indeed it is not apparent why any road should, under the changed conditions contem- plated, seek business by offering rebatos or other inducements to shippers. It could gain nothing by such a proceeding, but would almost certainly in the end loose. What the public would get, therefore, from the proposed pooling plan, would Do steady rates, in somo instances, por- haps a little higher, but always adjusted 0 as to meet the requirement of reason- ableness. The railroads would enter upon an era of peace and mutual help- fulness, each recoiving a just proportion of the traflic in its territory and having no incentive to struggle for any more. These are very satisfactory conditions which the advocates of limited pooling sy would result from the application of that plan, and theve is very good reason to beliove that such would be the case. At any rate this view appears to prevail 0 largely in congress that an amend- ment of the interstate commerce act, permitting limited pooling, is believed to be highly probable. SELLING ARMS 70 INDIANS. It is presumed that there will be no opposition to the bill introduced in the house by Representative Hansbrough of North Dakota, which prohibits the sale of arws and ammunition to Indians, ex- copt those who have taken lands in sov- cralty, and provides a penalty of im- prisonment and fine to be inflicted upon any person eonvicted of selling Indians these arms. The measue also provides that all arms and ammunition in the hands of Indians not upon lands in sov- oralty shall be confiscated, but this may be modified so as to require that such Indians shall receive a rensonablo re- turn for their property when taken from them. The Indian bureau has never had an- thority to arrest persons selling arms and ammunition to the Indians, and events now happening show it to b high time the bureau was given such author ity. There is not a sound reason w those Indians who have failed to take up lands, and continue wholly dependent upon the government, showing no dispo- sition tochange their mode of life, should be allowed to have arms, and of course there is but one way to prevent this, and that is by such le ion as is now pro- posed enalty for its viola- tion as is done by Mr. Hans- , which provides for im- sonment, of not less than two yonrs and a fino of not more than $3500. The North Dakota representative stated that the 1dep of such alaw wa gosted by the fact that last fall he saw about one hundred Indians in the town of DMinot buying arms and ammunition, and they had plenty of money to make the purchases, An In- dian with a gun at command and a sup- ply of ammunition is a dangerous fellow to be at large, particularly if wholly free from obligation and responsibility, as those are who have not taken lands in When a large y of In- dians having nothing 10 do possesses a supply of arms tho tendency of that fact is to arouse in them the spirit of mis chief. It is a continualinesntive to law lessness and violenco, and it is the mi- fest duty of the government to provent this. Were such a law as i3 now pro- posed alteady on the statute books and propoerly enforced, the existing trouble with the Indians, which may be yet more sorious before it is ended, and if it costno loss of life will involve an ex- pense in money of parhaps a millioa dol- lars, could not have oceurred. The gov- ernment has made a grave mistake inal- lowing the sale of urms and ammunition to all Indians, and although tho pro- posed logislation is semewhat in the na- ture of locking the stable after the horse | has boen stolen, it will sorve a good pur- pose if the prosent difficulty shall bo sot- tlad without the use of arms. There isa favorable prospect that this will be done, and in that event it will thereafter be the {ault of the government, in case the bill in question becomes a law, if there is any future menaco from the Indians any- where. THE PROSPECT OF A NEW PARTY. There will be an effort to put a third party candidate in the presidential race in 1892, To the general public this is the most interesting fact brought out by the results of the Ocala convention, It is important news for the politicians, and espocially for those of the west. And yet it may not be so important as it appears at first glance. The Alliance has enjoyed a phonoma- nal growth and cut an unespectedly largo figure at the last election, It would have beer: strange indeed if this had not been followed by a demand for a separate movement at the next na- tional election. The managers display some shrewdness in the mannerin which hey meet this demand. Rofusing to opealy commit the Alliance to the support of a new party at this time, the Ocala leaders have sanctioned a call for a convention at Cincinnati next Februar at which all the discontented political eloments in the country will be invited to get together and “found anew party.” The vesults of this convention will be submittod to the various farmers’ organi- zutions, the labor unions and radical re- formers of all sorts throughout the coun- try. If the platform is one on which they can temporarily mergo their diver- gent interests they will endeavor to agree on a ticket early in 1892 and go 1mto a campaign on a grand scale. This is the present aspect of the third-party movement, which has grown out of the alllance in Nebraska, Kunsas and a few southern states. What will be the effect of the new development on the standing and pros- pocts of the old parties? It is a long time yot to election day, 1892, but some- thing can be learned from the past and from certain weaknesses alveady visible in the new movement, There is nothing new or startling about the appearance of a third party in anational election. It has been a part of the phenomena of presidential contests from the beginning of the republic, nor is there any novelty about a political demonstration based on the demands of a class for special legislation, That has been experienced over and over again and the results have been monotonously uniform. We have seen the rise and fall of the know nothings, of the anti- Masons, of “the greenbackers, andof a long p fon of labor movements, None of these attompts to build up third parties for class purposes have ever made n se improssion on American politics, t constitutional reforms have been ecomplished in the course of time, but thoy have come through the operation ¢f the old parties, guided and moulded By the sound sense of their rank and file. There is no reason to ap- prehend that in these respects the future will differ from ths past. Thera is one serious obstacle that al- roady looms up in the path of the Alliance when the ques- tion of political action is con- sidered. This is the fact that its south- ern eleient has not descrted and will not desert the democratic party. It cries: “Down with sec- tionalism,” which is a sounding phrase, but allits acts say: *“Up with democracy,” which is a significant fact. The activity of ghe Alliance lends an unseasonablo interost to politics, but thero is nothing yet in sight to justify the conclusion that the old parties are about to go out of buskness, LIGIT ON I0WA DARKNESS. The executive council of Towa has just completed its official canvass of tho votes cast on Novembor 4, and the figuves shed considerable light on the dark sudject of Towa's sudden plunge to democracy. Towa went democratic, almost for the fiest time within the memory of man, in 1880, Horace Boics was chosen gov- crnor by a plurality of 6, This surprising rowult, occurving in an off year when no national issues were at stake, was genorally attributed to the buneful influence of prohibition on the party responsible for it. It remained, however, for the figures of the election of 1890 to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that thi gnosis was correct. [n this connection the significant fea- urns is not tho fact that ted so much as the manner i I that result was accomplished. The change of sentiment which made the difference between republican defeat in 1889 and republi in 1800, oceurred in the which contain the including Burlington, Clinton, Council Sioux City, Des Moines, Cedar W rloo and Boone. In these 1 ties the republican gain w: most exastly the major] ceived tho year bafore. To complete the losson figures it is only necessary form of tho party in the last two In 1830 it was a stiff declaration wor of the continuance of the pro- hibitory policy,, The republicans in the large cities knew what this meant and thousands of them refrained from voting or supported Boies, 1n 1890 this radical d was abandooed and the platform support of the national iples of republicanism was “‘the “ouly test of party feaity.” O this plat- form the party rallied somothing of its old strength and came out once more at the haad of We' poll. ) The time cannot ba far distant, if it be not already at hand, when the legisla- turd will rgpoal a luw which has wrought havoe in theswniks of the old dominant party and done injury to the material ¢ Uhe state. * In tho meantime, this illumination of the causes which have led to the strange upheaval in Towa will not be lost on western republi- cans generally, in wh 6,504 — that Boi of these y to recall the EMPEROR WILLIAM manages to pro- duce a sensible ide onally in the midst of his ceaseless activity., He b bogun a reform of the school system w a demand for the teaching of the G man language and history in preference to the prolonged course of Latin and Gre That is a reform which will be generally commended. The emperor has much of the freshness of youth in his statesmanship and sometimes brings a havd, metallic smile to the face of Bismarck, but no one can deny that he is sincerely ambitious to make an honor- uble fame as the rulor of u great people. THE Pulitzer building, the new home of the New York World,will be formally opened and dedicated to its purpose Wednesd The oceasion is likely to be amemorable one, preparations having been made to entertain a host of news- paper visitors, This building is one of the best appointed and equipped news- paper offices in tho world, and is a mag- nificent monument to the energy, ability and almost phenomenal success of M, Joseph Pulitzor. SPECULATION as to the political posi- tion of Farmer Howe in the coming legislature “is needless. IFarmer Howe will be found cultivating the majority, outshining the most zealous alliance man inthe interest of the oppressed producer, and incidentally drawing water to the mill of Farmer Howe and the Missouri Pacific railroad. SENATOR EwAnTs solemnly remarks that if he had his life to live over again he would be a jou And yet John Gaines Ingall3 turns his back on an offer of $15,000 a yonr from a New York news- paper and continues his strugglo with the Kansas grangers for the senator- ship. i CONGRESSMAN DORSEY'S acuvity in dispensing postoffices in the Third dis- trict inflicates & philanthropic desire to ease the duties of his successor, 01 INSAGHT. Ellis"§¥ heeler Wilcor. On the riverof life, as I floatalong, 1500 with the SpIHE's sight That many a nauseous weed of wrong Has root in o seed of right. For evil 15 good that has gone astray, And sorrow is only blindness, And the world is always under the sway Of a changeless law of kindness. The commonest error a truth can make 1s shouting its sweet voice hourse, And sin 15 only the soul's mistake And misdirecting Its foroe. And love, the fairest of all fair things That ever to men desconded, Grows rank with nettles and polsonous things Unless it Is watened and tended. There could not be anything better than this Old wor'd In the way It began, Aud though some muiters have gone amiss From the great orlginal plan; And however durk the skios mi And how ever souls muy blun Itell you 1t will work out clear, for good lies over and under, appear, or, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. Mrs. Cornish, an aged resident of Seward, fell from her aoorstep tho other day and broke her arm. Adam Pretleg, a prominent citizen of Plattsmouth, aied at his home Saturday, aged fifty-six years, The Butler county court house is under roof, and it will be pushed to completion, It will cost £50,000, Thomas B, Van Alstine, an old resident of Columbus, died of acute pncumouia, aged seventy-two years, The new court house donated to Box Butte county by the citizens of Hemingford will be completed by January 6, Vesta's new Methodist church cost $2,500, all of which has been raised and the new edi- fice dedicated free of debt. Two hundred and fifty Schuyler people ate beans ut the supper given by the Grand Army post of that city to the Women's Reliof corps. A team of horses stolen from Milo Hayes, a liveryman of Ceresco, was recovered near Columbus, but no trace of the thief was founa. The new German Lutheran church near Arlington, one of the best county churshes in the stato, will be dedicatod a week from next Sunday, Charles Nelson, a prominent eattleman liv- ing near Whitman, was accidentaily shot and killed while carelessly handling a gun recently, The Box Butte county commissioners have met for the last time at Nonpareil, Thewr next meeting will be at Hemingford, the new county seat. P. aud J. MeDonald, Columbus saloon-keep- ors, have settled with Mrs, Slawinski, whose husband was killed while intoxicated, by paying her §1,000, on of a s been comple been electod and the member: ing the manual of arms, Mvrs, James Millard, while visiting at the home of A, B. Boone in Broken Bow, dropped dead the other day while standing in the doorway. Heart disease was the cause. While Herman Berudt of Palestine was husking corn he and one of his he 3 reached for the same ear at the sume time and the horse got one of Berudt's fingers as well, which it bit off. The society amateurs of Beatrice will put i production of “I'he Mikado' and 2. A professional musical 70 manuger has been engaged, and elogaut costumes, a strong chorus and large orchestra will be some of the features William Kingen, the Scotts Bluff county stler, has been convicted of stoc! : at Cheyenne, Wyo. The case has much attention and there is much g aimong the cattlo men over the i olen over four huundred inning them into ad of an organized he has intimidated his s and the county authorities for Ly are twelve more indict- ilitia_company at cors have are fast learn- lown. | spring has becn discovered two miles from J Polo Alto 5045011 Are ny cattle from eating smutty cornstalk: Hog cholera is playing navoc in the vicinity of New Providence, some farmers losing as many us discase, A little chi corge Bambo s been living for ‘tured so as to expose the by A boy named Huntchback of Geneva, some weck ran a nail into bis hand, and delay in calling a physician has vesulted in having the arm Mrs, Chris Baker, of Highland townsship, Tama county, while in a fit of insanity at- tempted to kill her child. Sho has been pro- nounced hopelessly demented by the doctors and will probably be sent to the asylum. While boring for water on the farm of R. M. Iee, in Concord township, Louisa count, a few days ago,a strong flow of gas w: struck. Zas comes up with such force 2 to throw mud and water 200 feet into the air. D. A. Pugh, living near Monticello, while cutting Up a black oak tree for wood the other day, found imbedded six inches from the outercovering a bullet for which there was no visible entrance. The tree was twenty inches in diameter and had stood the storms of many winters, A young girl named Brooks, living near Ontario, Boone county, while alone in the younger children fell down nd broke her back. 1t took 50 time to procure a doctor, and the girl suffered terri , being unabke to move until help arrived. v News-Tribune contains a 1ve ruised st out by the government. depaviment of agriculture, asking them to bring in their may be sent away for 3 in dead eurnost is re- gurd to the establishment of a beet sugar factory. At Dubuque the other day amarried woman distinguished herself in a novel manner, Her husband bhad taken a 1 and bought her a pair of shoes heard of it and immediately donned her war paint and went on the war path. Meeting the ob- jeet of her se street she com| her to remove the shoes, which she c off intriumph for her own use, leaving the indiscroet maiden to walk homne in her stock- ing feet. Kossuth county is about to prove to the stute that tr viculiural graduates are armers. The Misses Mann, two young ladies who received their diplomas at the late commencement, have plaus already per- for carryimg ou a horticulty farm on on scientific principles. They will begin with tea aci which will be de- voted whol small fruits and apples, They expect, however, to_branch out into other lines and testsugar beets and other vogetabies, They have afine farm about throe miles from Algona, and their father, now dead, was one 8f the pioneer fruit grow- ers in the county. The Two Dakotas. Spearfish has a will with a capacity of five tons of plaster of paris dail The quartzite auarries near Parker aro to be developed, and about $1,000 worth of ma- chinerv has been ‘)ul on the ground., Irom fifty to 100 men will be empioyod. A state dairymen’s association will be formed at DeSmet on December LI, ho State horticultural soviety holds its annual session at the same place Decomber 10 to 12, To the Women’s Relief corps of Water town belongs the credit of furnishing sup- plies and fixtures for the tirst room to be fit- ted up in the Soldiers' home of South Da- kato, The Spring Creck cheeso factory near Ouida was in_operation fifty-four days this Jast summer, during which time 24,559 pounds of milk were received and 2,438 pounds of cheese made, all of which found a ready sale. The Deadwood gamblers who have been arvested for the offence of gambling and allowed to go ou their own rocognizance are many of them leaving the country. Indict- menis, however, will be found against them, to be prosccuted 1. case of their return, Voterinarfan Shab says the distemper which has become epideniic among the horses of Sioux Falls is regular old-fashioned in- fluenza. 1t goes through every barn itstrikes, and from.present indieations it will take in every stable of horses in town. It has just broken out in the street car barns. John Cook, @& pioneer of the Black Hills, having come from Montaua in 1576, committed suicide by cutting his throat at Whitewood. The dead man was subject to fits of melan- cholia, induced by protracted drinking, and it was during one of these spells that the rash act was committed, He had been drink- ing for nearly a week, and his friends desir- ing to sober him u[J deorived him of all kinds of intoxicants. The suicide was committed with a common pooket kuif This is Not Origi Joseph Herald, “The democrats of this country are in peril by means of too much temporary success, says the New York Herald., No one doubts that the democratic success § temporary and that the democrats themselves are in danger, The Herald ought to romark something new. Golinth as u Horrible Example. Chicago Tribune. Learn a lesson in temperanee from Goliath, Hewas @ man with a great head, but ous sling brought him low, SAFE CRACKERS IN LINCOLN. They Make a Haul of Over Nine Handred Dollars, PREPARING TOAMEND LINCOLN'S CHARTER The Rapid Transit Stecls a March on the Electric Rallway—Mayor Gra« ham's Policy — A Murderous Assnuit—Lincoln Notes.. LixcoLy, Neb, Dec. 7.—[Special to Tus | ~Burglars cracked the safe in H. R. ssloy's store on ‘Tenth and P streets somo time last night and managed to secure §900. The burglars effocted an_entranco by prying open the iron shutter in the rear end of tho store, The window was then easily raised, it being unfastened. The safe standsin the back end of thostore near the stairway. A hole was drilled midway botween the combi- nation and the handle for opening the door. After the holo was drillod a steel rod was in- serted and a blow or two on this was sufficient to annihilate the combination. Tho door was then easily opened and tho safe rifled. Thero was over 8700 fu thesafo in paper monoy, gold and silver. AlLthis was taken and also about §200 worth of checks, all worth their face value. Close to tho safe was over $3,000 worth of silks, but none of theso were taken, or any- thing else in tho store s far as can yet be uscertained, Itwas therefore cvident that the thieves were after money only. Thie burglars made their exit through the side door opening on Tenth strect, having mevely to lift the heavy bar on the in- sido to get out. Closo to’ this door, on the outside, is an clecric alarm which an L, D, T. watchman is supposed to use every fiftecn minutes to turn in his report of everything boing all right. Nothing was known concerning the depro- dations of tho burglars until 1 a. m., when Mr. H. R. Krug, 8 member of the firm, who had returned from Chicago on the noon train, discovered the sido deor open. TO AMEND TIE CHARTER. Tho work of preparing amendments to tho charter of the city of Lincon to be submitted islaturo for incorporation in the 1ing the city bas been divided as follows by C. A. Atkinkon, chairman of the board of trado committee, and L. C. Pace, chairman of the council committee: Tho mat- ter of water was referced to Mg, McClay; taxes and finances to Hon. R. E. Moorc; ofi- cors' duties, salaries and accounts, Hon, K. B, paving, sewerage and public im- rovoments, N. 8. Harwood; parks and pub. grounds, Hon. H. Oakl D! aims, H. D. Hathaw and buildings, 3, water supply, Hon. H. M. Rice; taxes and finances, Hon. Henry Veith; duties, salari and accounts of officers, Hon. I A, Boehmer paving, Hon. H. M. Bushnell; sewerage and public improvements, Hon. A. Halter; parks and public grounds, Hon, H. W. Orr; elmms, William McLaughlin; publie schools, Messrs. Bushnell and Orvr; police, fire and health, Messrs. McLaughlin and Halter; contracts and street railways, Messrs. Rico and Boehmer. These subcommittees are requested to meet. at au carly date so that the two entire com- mnitiees may unite at the council chamber at 10 o'clock a. m. on December 20, DETTER THEATRICALS WANTED. The thoatre people of Lincoln are becoming disgusted with the Cheap John dramatic companies that are being imposed- upon them and the question is being asked why a city the size of Lincoln cannotenjoy an occasional first-class play, instead of having to suffer such inflictions as that of “Arizena Joe” last night. public schools Cox, esq.; STOLE A MAROTL The Rapid Transit street railway company stolo a march on the Lincoln Electric street railway company, by taking possession of Twelfth street. ‘A double track, consisting of ties dropped hastily hers and _there wero fastened to rails laid on top of them. The tracks ave practically useless in their present ition but they accomplished the purpose for which they were laid—to keop the elec- tric company from having the use of the pro- posed viaduet on north Tywelfth street. Sun- day was chosen berause no injunction could be'served today. The work commencad two hours before midnight. THE MAYOW'S POLICY. “It is my intenticn,” says Mayor Graham, “to drive all the fallen women from the busi- ness and residence portion of the city us rapidiy as possible. I don’t believe in tolerat- i 1 a business in the midst of ~respecta- The social outcasts should be driven to the bottows, adjacent tolumber yards and other places 'where nobody lives d where the contaminating effect of th tality can affect no one excent the crea- cir own class.” A BRUTAL ASSAULT. A report has been received here of a bratal assault on Thomas Lee, a farmer who was on his way home to his farm about mme miles northeast of this city. Mr. Lee was draggod from his wagon, kicked and beaten into in- scusibility. He was then left lying uppar- ly dead in the middle of the voud. — His ssault and ran The fol- id to be Bill Nolan and two brothers named Meyer. Lee's injuries are not cousidered fatal, NTS HER MAIDEN NAME AGAIN, zie B. Barrett is the latest recruit seeking divorces in Lio- ne has been or ten yeurs, that she has beon without fault or flaw and atall times a faithful, chaste and obedient wife. Despite this Lizzio says that George wransferred his afTections o a woman named Mrs. Gibson in F'remoat, and in substantia- tion _recounts some scandalous actions in which the two are allezed to have figured on August 14, She therefors asks for a divoree ation of her maiden name, Liz- k. MINAL RATLWAY. The Lincoln & West Lincoln terminal railway company has filed its articlos of ju- poration with the sccretary of state. The places of the termini of the roal to be con- strueted under this organization shall be the city of Liucoln, the Lincoln stockyards and packing houses counected therewith and such manufacturing institutions as may be located at or within four miles of West | Tho capital stoclk is £50,000 and the Brown, E. A. Kennard, Charles A. 3. 7. Boggs and Isaac M. Raymond. The principal offices shall be in West Lincoln and the aim of the company is the construe- tion and operation of a railroad boetween the tormini for general railroad business and the switehing of cars for all railroad - companies desiving to avail thomselves of its servicos. MINERVA'S RE! Mrs. Minerva Young is very indignant at the statement made by her husbund, Jame that sho has been living with him since b application for o divorce. Ste denies that she has had any thing whatevor to do with him siuce the upplication was made by her and declaros that such a statement is mercly a dodge to keep from paying alimony pending the action of the court in regurd to the peti- tion for divorce. APTER SOLDIERS. Lientenant Wilson of Fort Riley is in the city for the purpose of sccuring recruits for the regular army. The licutenunt says that all applicants for infantry and artillory the height must be not less than five foet four inches, and welght not less than one hundred and twenty-elght (128) pounds and not more than one hundred and ninety (190) pounds. Just look at Tuk Ber's sworn statement of circulation. I'he Capital City Courler, the society jour- nal of the city, celebrated its fifth anuniver- sary yesterday. Tho supreme court mects on ‘Puesduy to hear the Custer and Knox county division cases, It is probable that the judicial elec- tion in the S(th district will also then be de- aded. The work of transforming the Capitol Heights car line into an electrical system has commenced. In about ten days or two weeks atmost cars will be running from Thirteenth 10 Fortieth stret by electricity. Revival meetings are In progress atthe United Presbyterian church, on Sixteenth and R streets. The Flirst Baptist church will also have a o8 of meetings every night this week. The Grace M. E. Church in Kast Lincoln 15 also holding revival meetings. SPARKLERS, Texas Siftings: A corn dodger—the total abstainer. Boston Transoript: ~handcuffs and time-loeks Pittsburg Dispatch: Tt's a question of rest or arrest with the Sabbath reformors, Binghampton Republican: The plumber's poems are probably written in gas meter. St. Josoph News: It is hard to make s choating grocer see the crror of his weighs. Ram's Horn: Flirst-class scouritios s - The survival of the fittest i the doctrine that always wins in a dog flly New Orleans Picavune: Princeton i fnstitution of foot ball and accidental learn ing. Dallas News: Does the devil make men so bad, or is it themen who make the dovil so bad i Atchison Globe: Thero are two sides to every story, and some of them have four and a coiling. San Francisco Alta: Theso courtships by telograph may properly be called sparks from the wires, Baltimore Amorican: The man who leads a double life cannot bo expected to be single in purpose. Somerville Journal: Thero is fundamentally wrong avout the never gots mad. Washington Post: poor Indinn high to the United States government, Lock Haven Bxpress: Chorish the chrys- anthemwn and foudle the golden-rod, but do not forget to pug on your winter flannels. St. Joseph News: The Kansan whom o cyolone has cruelly separated from his house and family cannot be blamod for fooling blew. Munsey's Weekly: She--What do you suppose has taken all the color out of ‘her cheeks! Ho—Hor husband’s nose I should think. Washington Post: Turning down the up- per corners of the visiting card signifios visito and felicitation; the lower corners congo and condolence. Both styles aro in appropriato congrossional use, Boston Courier: “Why do_they call tho boys in the gallorios the gods, Mr. Tragedi- cust” “To distinguish them' from tho devils who sit in tho orchestra chairs and writo criticisms.” Washington Post: “T wondor if that mage reads my articlos before ho rejects them,’ ro marked o writer, 1 suppose,* responded his non-admiring friend, ‘you want tho coms fort of rovenge.) New York Press: “Tt's a most remariable thing,” said Smithers, “but I nover set foot in that place without finding a very disagreo- ablo person inside.” And Smithers wondered why his friends laughed so infornally much. ST i Posing For Effect. Kangas City Times. Railroad managers in conference and bent upon reform always bogin by resolving to issue no more froe passes, und then each of them goes homo and endeavors to get ahead of the other fellows by scattering them broud- cast among shippers, whose business can be influenced in this way. The country is quito familiar with these spasmodie manifestations of this particular virtue, but it has very little faith in their genuinenes: mething man who It may bo “Lo, the Kansas City Jowrnai, There have been casualties but no fatalities on the football field this year. No young man has died a hero's deatli fn the rush line, but many have had their noses honorably broken, and the hillocky condition of their heads would puzzlo a phrenologist. " iy i in_pootry, but_Indians " como PUBLIC SPEAKING AS A Akl“\‘ Why it is Dificulr, Ar Sir Morrell Mack What its Dangers enzle, the imperial docto) and highest known authority on the 'rnr.m:\ and Lungs. has just publishod a phamphlet in which ho gives advice to public spenkers. It s 0 groat mist he says, “to think that speaking requires no special training and exercise. in ordinary conversationr speaicing is an art and a dfficult one, the s preme development of which is oratory. A man who knows how to speak in publio and to spare his voice, nakes him self neard with lit- tle or no effort, white an untrained ora (o wears himself out quite rapidly.” We have all experienced the hoarsness, due to too much speaking, but the hoarsencss in in a cough, cold or throat affections, or the loss of voice f asthma, bronehitls or pulmonary trouble, is the most requent and most annoyfing. In such oases Sir Morrell Mackenzie recommends the Soden Mineral Pastilles, troches. 1le sy “They are speclally benoficial in catarrhal iseaxes of the alr passages, which Meludo sore throat. coughs, bronehitis and lung trou- Dbles and T have found them of great service {u the caso of singers and public speakers.” The treatment of throat and lung disenses in Europe had sdvanced far beyond any thing known In Awmerios, and when the highest known European authority speaks in such de- cided tones in regard to these wonderful So- den Troches, it should bea valuablo sugges fon. not ouly public speakers and singers, but tothe vast army of sufferors from coughs throat and lung discases, which are so ous and so constantly fatal. Obtain the genuine imported article, which must have the signature und testimonial of Morrell Muckenzie with each box. Noue other is genuino. THE North American Review ecevaes Contains: THE RECENT ELECTION. By Senator JOHN 0. CARLISLE. Victor Hugo : en Voyage. 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